I have a slightly different view. Sales engineer needs to advertise their
product. This is their job. If I do not have the convenience or need to get
more info on their product, I just decline the opportunity to talk.
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From: netview@toddh.net [mailto:netview@toddh.net]
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 3:00 AM
To: 'nv-l@lists.tivoli.com'
Subject: Re: [nv-l] Magnum Management Software
"Barr, Scott" <Scott_Barr@csgsystems.com> writes:
> Greetings - I was contacted by Magnum Technologies today via Email
> with information regarding their mangement software. I inquired as
> to how they obtained my name and was informed that Magnum obtained
> my email address via "an internet forum". This is the only "forum" I
> subscribe to.
>
> I just want to re-iterate that it is unacceptable for anyone to be
> giving out email addresses for subscribers of this list to a
> vendor. I post here with the assumption that we are all
> professionals and handing out email addresses to vendors is in my
> book rude.
The sad truth is that if you're concerned with the privacy or use of a
given email address, you simply can't use that email address on a
public forum no matter who runs it.
If the spammer isn't a direct member of the mailing list (able to read
your unmunged email address right out of their INBOX), they could
easily pick it up in a web search once they discovered the
web-accessible NetView archives.
Or, even more likely, the spam web bots spidering the web for anything
that looks like an email address using varying levels of intelligence
to associate a profile by context scoured your name off a web page
somewhere--perhaps the online netview list archives:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Scott_Barr%40csgsystems.com&hl=en&filter=0
Best Regards,
--
Todd H.
http://www.toddh.net/
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